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How Biostamps Can Replace Clunky Biomedical Sensors
An anonymous reader writes: The biostamp--a type of temporary tattoo that feels like skin, yet is laden with electronics--is just about ready for prime time. The technology has entered clinical trials for medical use, and consumer versions, costing just tens of cents, are coming soon. A visit to the University of Illinois researchers developing the technology reveals details about how biostamps work and how they are manufactured. A year from now, don't be surprised if you're wearing one--or two, or three--yourself.
I'm waiting for Mona Lisa-style 'derms.
" A year from now, don't be surprised if you're wearing one--or two, or three--yourself."
Nope... not gonna happen.
Something Streisand
http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/sourceforge-locked-in-projects-of-fleeing-users-cashed-in-on-malvertising
until the ACA mandates everyone has one of these
have you seen my sig? there are many others like it but none that are the same
By the time the devices arrived at the consumer level it gonna cost us, the consumers, hundreds of dollars per bio-stamp
"tens of cents". Ha ha ha ha ha!!! Hilarious. Regardless of how cheap they are to make, does anyone have any doubt that, when these things reach the marketplace, the bare minimum one will cost is $20. More likely $50+.
That's great, because I've been looking for my severed arm to get the tattoo of the Lost Incarntion, but hey if I can just buy it from a vendor for less than $1 that'll make my life a lot easier.
Does the internet line in the Bay Area pass over the San Andreas fault or are the Chinese attacking us or what??
Will it automatically tweet all my health information, or does it only go to my health insurance company?
Don't waste your vote! Vote for whoever you want, unless you live in a swing state it won't matter anyways
Google will be happy to know about you herpes.
I, for one, still prefer the good old fashioned tramp stamp.
No. Just a bunch of dreams and visions. And a few prototypes that don't seem too well thought out. He's talking about coming down with a fever and wanting to measure his temperature with a stamp. Does he wear it on his arm or in his rectum?
Need an STD biostamp, something that, when you see it, you know the person is safe.
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66.6 cents
Any such stamp that can detect blood glucose reliably would pay for all the research: blood sugar. Glucose tests cost $1/test strip, and even mildly rigorous control takes roughly 5 strips/day. The current "continous sensors" all have to be calibrated with several fingerstick blood tests a day, so they don't save any money overall. And ther are roughly half a million type 1 diabetecs who could save billions, annually, on expensive emergency treatment with such care. And the Type 2 diabetics, 20 times as many of them and all of their caregivers and partners, would smash down the doors to get such tools for day-to-day treatment of family members they love and find difficult to care for with the frequent, painful finger sticks.
I've got more holes in me than the tattooed man from 50 years of Type 1 diabetes, and I'm *sick* of it!
A year from now, don't be surprised if you're wearing one--or two, or three--yourself.
Only if it collects data for Google to monetize.
And I get "don't be surprised if you're wearing 2-3 in a year".
Yeah, right. I'll see you in another year, piece of shit slashdot.
Anyone with an NFC will be able to monitor your vitals. Think of the advertising and sales possibilities! Does a certain musical passage raise or lower your BP or pulse rate? Does a certain image or video produce fear or give you a woodie? Now everyone will know and will be able to use that for advertising targeted to your autonomic responses. Resistance is futile.
The Russians have won. They have made the world a cesspool of distrust, greed, fear and hate.
Companies like CNN already mine your health status by studying what types of links you click on regularly -- news stories about new heart drugs, or cancer, or this helps with urinary tract infections or dialysis patients.
Doesn't even matter you are just an IP address -- they're selling ads to companies to direct at "someone".
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Next big thing. Remember you heard it from this A.C.!
This is why I advise a privacy policy of clicking on every link you see! Let 'em mine that! :-)
Plays havoc with a goal of "keep machine free of malware", of course, but, hey, that's the price of privacy these days, right?
I don't know of any futuristic (or past) story where being stamped is a good thing. Common property that is stamped: Slaves Livestock Office furniture Consumer goods I'm none of these.